CLIMATE LIVE: LIVE STREAMING CONFERENCES
What is it?
"Climate Live" is the name of a series of conferences on climate change, transmitted via live streaming to various schools in Portugal. Guest experts will address the topics of Biodiversity and Water in a climate change perspective.
What does live streaming mean?
The live streaming technology allows you to track a real-time event, from the web. To watch the event live, you simply have to access a link provided by the organisation. With live streaming, it is possible to achieve a virtually unlimited number of participants.
Objective
The conference has two main objectives:
1 - Sensitise students of basic and high education to the importance of climate change, particularly concerning biodiversity and water availability;
2 - Give students the opportunity to obtain answers to their questions, given by experts in the field of climate change.
How to interact?
After the interventions by the guest speakers are transmitted, schools have 15 minutes to prepare questions to ask the experts. Questions should be submitted via e-mail ([email protected]). The experts will answer to as many questions as possible, within the time available. When do the conferences take place? 1st Conference - 6th of April (Wednesday), from 11 A.M. to 12 P.M Topic: Biodiversity 2nd Conference – 15th of April (Friday), from 11 A.M. to 12 P.M Topic: Water Where? It is not necessary to travel to the location of the events. Using the live streaming technology to transmit the event, teachers and students can watch both conferences from the school’s facilities. Broadcasting the event in live streaming will be provided by the Unidade de Novas Tecnologias Educativas da Universidade do Porto (New Educational Technologies Unity of the University of Porto). Materials To attend the conference using live streaming, it is necessary that the school ensures the existence of the following materials: - Room / Area to watch the broadcast; -Computers with Internet connection; - Video projectors; - Speakers. Registration To register for the conference (s), a professor at the school must fill in the following form until the 3rd March 2016. ATTENTION: It is up to the teachers to gather the students interested in participating in the conferences, to register the school in the events, and to organise the necessary logistics. Price Free. Update The names of the speakers and additional information will be published in due time on this page. |